Record

Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses: Notes

06/03/1991

Administrative, Notes

5-page dispersed notes summing up concerns and suggestions for the information to be included in the Kaplan Fund application. .

Authors:

Marian Wattman Oshima, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project 1 Items

Planned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses 1990 to 1994

Podunk, NY, U.S.A.

Low Cost Housing, Designed, Not built

Client:

Podunk Neighborhood Development - Mr. Osmo Heila

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, James Maguire

Project cost:

Expected project cost: $7,000,000

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for layout on the site by users Implementation process

Proposal for a new community of 200 people in a thirty acre site in Podunk, New York, near Ithaca, a traditional small town where houses to middle and low income families could be provided at a price that ordinary people ...